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ALEXANDER  GOLDSTEIN 

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GENERAL  ORDERS,  \        WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

I  ADJUTANT  GEN-ERAL'B  OFFICE, 

No.  1.  )  Washington,  January  2,  1863. 

The  following  Proclamation  by  the  President  is  published  for  the 
information  and  government  of  the  Army  and  all  concerned : 

BY  THE  PRESIDENT  OP  THE  UNITED  STATES  OF  AMERICA. 

A  PROCLAMATION. 

WHEREAS,  on  the  twenty-second  day  of  September,  in  the  year  of  our 
Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-two,  a  Proclamation  was 
issued  by  the  President  of  the  United  States,  containing,  among  other 
things,  the  following,  to  wit : 

"  Thatr  on  the  first  day  of  January,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thou- 
sand eight  hundred  and  sixty-three,  all  persons  held  as  slaves  within  any 
State  or  designated  part  of  a  State,  the  people  whereof  shall  then  be  in 
rebellion  against  the  United  States,  shall  be  then,  thenceforward,  and 
forever,  free ;  and  the  Executive  government  of  the  United  States,  in- 
cluding the  military  and  naval  authority  thereof,  will  recognize  and 
maintain  the  freedom  of  such  persons,  and  will  do  no  act  or  acts  to  re- 
press such  persons,  or  any  of  them,  in  any  efforts  they  may  make  for 
their  actual  freedom : 

4 'That  the  Executive  will,  on  the  first  day  of  January  aforesaid,  by 
proclamation,  designate  the  States  and  parts  of  States,  if  any,  in  which 
the  people  thereof,  respectively,  shall  then  be  in  rebellion  against  the 
United  States ;  and  the  fact  that  any  State,  or  the  people  thereof,  shall, 
on  that  day,  be  in  good  faith  represented  in  the  Congress  of  the  United 
States,  by  members  chosen  thereto  at  elections  wherein  a  majority  of  the 
qualified  voters  of  such  States  shall  have  participated,  shall,  in  the  ab- 
sence of  strong  countervailing  testimony,  be  deemed  conclusive  evidence 
that  such  State,  and  the  people  thereof,  are  not  then  in  rebellion  against 
the  United  States:" 

Now,  therefore,  I,  ABRAHAM  LINCOLN,  President  of  the  United  States, 
by  virtue  of  the  power  in  me  vested  as  Commander-in-chief  of  the  Army 


and  Navy  of  the  United  States,  in  time  of  actual  armed  rebellion  against 
the  authority  and  government  of  the  United  States,  and  as  a  fit  and 
necessary  war  measure  for  suppressing  said  rebellion,  do,  on  this  first 
day  of  January,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred 
and  sixty-three,  and  in  accordance  with  my  purpose  so  to  do,  publicly 
proclaimed  for  the  full  period  of  one  hundred  days  from  the  day  first 
above  mentioned,  order  and  designate  as  the  States  and  parts  of  States 
wherein  the  people  thereof,  respectively,  are  this  day  in  rebellion  against 
the  United  States,  the  following,  to  wit : 

Arkansas,  Texas,  Louisiana,  (except  the  parishes  of  St.  Bernard, 
Plaquemines,  Jefferson,  St.  John,  St.  Charles,  St.  James,  Ascension, 
Assumption,  Terre  Bonne,  Lafourche,  St.  Mary,  St.  Martin,  and  Or- 
leans, including  the  city  of  New  Orleans, )  Mississippi,  Alabama,  Florida, 
Georgia,  South  Carolina,  North  Carolina,  and  Virginia,  (except  the 
fo:ty-eight  counties  designated  as  West  Virginia,  and  also  -the  counties 
of  Berkeley,  Accomac,  Northampton,  Elizabeth  City,  York,  Princess 
Ann,  and  Norfolk,  including  the  cities  of  Norfolk  and  Portsmouth,)  and 
which  excepted  parts  are  for  the  present  left  precisely  as  if  this  Procla- 
mation were  not  issued. 

And  by  virtue  of  the  power  and  for  the  purpose  aforesaid,  I  do  order 
and  declare  that  all  persons  held  as  slaves  within  said  designated  States 
and  parts  of  States  are  and  henceforward  shall  be  free;  and  that  the 
Executive  government  of  the  United  States,  including  the  military  and 
naval  authorities  thereof,  will  recognize  and  maintain  the  freedom  of 
said  persons. 

And  I  hereby  enjoin  upon  the  people  so  declared  to  be  free  to  abstain 
from  all  violence,  unless  in  necessary  self-defence ;  and  I  recommend  to 
them  that,  in  all  cases  when  allowed,  they  labor  faithfully  for  reasonable 
wages. 

And  I  further  declare  and  make  known  that  such  persons,  of  suitable 
condition,  will  be  received  into  the  armed  service  of  the  United  States 
to  garrison  forts,  positions,  stations,  and  other  places,  and  to  man  ves- 
sels of  all  sorts  in  said  service. 

And  upon  this  act,  sincerely  believed  to  be  an  act  of  justice  warranted 
by  the  Constitution  upon  military  necessity,  I  invoke  the  considerate 
judgment  of  mankind  and  the  gracious  favor  of  Almighty  God. 

In  witness  whereof,  I  have  hereunto  set  my  hand  and  caused  the  seal 
of  the  United  States  to  be  affixed. 


Done  at  the  city  of  Washington  this  first  day  of  January,  in  the  year 
of  our  Lord  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and  sixty-three,  and  of 
[L.  s.]  the  Independence  of  the  United  States  of  America  the  eighty- 
seventh. 

ABRAHAM  LINCOLN. 
By*the  President : 

WILLIAM  H.  SEWARD,  Secretary  of  State. 

BY  ORDER  OF  THE  SECRETARY  OF  WAR  : 

L.  THOMAS,  Adjutant  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  \  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

I  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE, 

No.   3.  )  Washington,  January  3,  1863. 

The  following  Act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information  and 
government,  of  all  concerned : 

[PUBLIC — No.  5.] 

AN  ACT  to  facilitate  the  discharge  of  disabled  soldiers  from  the  army,  and  the  in- 
spection of  convalescent  camps  and  hospitals. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  there  shall  be  added  to 
the  present  medical  corps  of  the  army  eight  medical  inspectors,  who 
shall,  immediately  after  the  passage  of  this  act,  be  appointed  by  the 
President,  by  and  with  the  advice  and  consent  of  the  Senate,  without 
regard  to  their  rank  when  so  selected,  but  with  sole  regard  to  qualifica- 
tions, and  who  shall  have  the  rank,  pay,  and  emoluments  now  authorized 
by  law  to  officers  of  that  grade. 

SEC.  2.  And  be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  officers  of  the  medical 
inspector's  department  shall  be  charged,  in  addition  to  the  duties  now 
assigned  to  them  by  existing  laws,  with  the  duty  of  making  regular 
and  frequent  inspections  of  all  military  general  hospitals  and  convales- 
cent camps,  and  shall,  upon  each  such  inspection,  designate  to  the  sur- 
geon in  charge  of  such  hospitals  or  camps  all  soldiers  who  may  be,  in 
their  opinion,  fit  subjects  for  discharge  from  the  service,  on  surgeon's 
certificate  of  disability,  or  sufficiently  recovered  to  be  returned  to  their 
regiments  for  duty,  and  shall  see  that  such  soldiers  are  discharged  or  so 


returned.     And  the  medical  inspecting  officers  are  hereby  empowered, 
under  such  regulations  as  may  be  hereafter  established,  to  direct  the 
return  to  duty,  or  the  discharge  from  service,  as  the  case  may  be,  of  all 
soldiers  designated  by  them. 
Approved  December  27,  1862. 

Bt  ORDER  OF  THE  SECRETARY  OF  WAR  : 

E.  D.  TOWNSEND, 

Assistant  Adjutant  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  \  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

(.  ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE, 

No.  7.  )  Washington,  January  7,  1863. 

The  following  Act  of  Congress  is  published  for  the  information  and 
government  of  all  concerned : 

[PUBLIC — No.  6.] 

AN  ACT  to  improve  the  organization  of  the  Cavalry  forces. 

Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  of  the  United 
States  of  America  in  Congress  assembled,  That  hereafter  each  regiment 
of  Cavalry  organized  in  the  United  States  service  may  have  two  assistant 
surgeons,  and  each  company  or  troop  of  Cavalry  shall  have  from  sixty 
to  seventy-eight  privates. 

Approved  January  6,  1863. 

BY  ORDER  OF  THE   SECRETARY  OF  WAR  : 

E.  D.  TOWNSEND, 

Assistant  Adjutant  General. 


GENERAL  ORDERS,  J  WAR  DEPARTMENT, 

ADJUTANT  GENERAL'S  OFFICE, 
No.  10.  )  Washington,  January  10,  1863. 

I.. The  following  officers  and  men  have  been  declared  duly  exchanged 
as  prisoners  of  war  since  the  announcement  in  "General  Orders"  No. 
191,  of  November  19,  1862: 

1.  All  the  officers  and  enlisted  men  who  were  delivered  at  City  Point, 
Va.,  from  the  llth  November,  1862,  to  the  1st  January,  1863. 


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